The title figure of this poem wears a "necktie rich and modest" with a "collar mounting firmly to [his] chin." He has heard "the voices dying with a dying fall/Beneath the music from a farther room," presumably alluding to social gatherings like the one he appears to choose not to attend. Afraid to "spit out all the butt-en
The title figure of this poem wears a "necktie rich and modest" with a "collar mounting firmly to [his] chin." He has heard "the voices dying with a dying fall/Beneath the music from a farther room," presumably alluding to social gatherings like the one he appears to choose not to attend. Afraid to "spit out all the butt-ends of [his] days and ways," this title speaker despairs that he "should have been a pair of ragged claws/Scuttling across the floors of silent seas." So goes, FTP, the "love song" of what title poetic character created by T.S. Eliot?
The title figure of this poem wears a "necktie rich and modest" with a "collar mounting firmly to [his] chin."
{J. Alfred Prufrock}